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I celebrated another birthday this week with a wonderful weekend with my family. I was treated to a surprise trip to a bowling alley and a dinner at the same restaurant my mother took me to when I was a child.

As opioid deaths take center stage in the news, it was just a matter of time before we heard a horror story about a reputable doctor caught up in a bureaucratic crackdown. The law of unintended consequences reigns supreme.

“The people of Mississippi are our state’s greatest asset,” wrote Glenn McCullough Jr., executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, in a recent newspaper column in which he was reflecting on what he called “the bountiful blessings of the past year in Mississi

It has often been said that government does not create jobs, it merely creates the environment that encourages, or in some cases, discourages, job growth. When it comes to occupational licensing, the emphasis is on discouraging job growth.

Mat Baxter steers the multi-million-dollar advertising decisions for products ranging from Axe Body Spray to Legos. And now the CEO of advertising agency Initiative is telling all of his clients the same message: Don’t spend a single dime on Facebook.